Paper doll.



c. SPEAR.

PAPER DOLL.

APPLIUATION FILED APB..14,1911.

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to provide means whereby UNITED STATES PA TEN T OFFICE.

CARL SPEAK, 0F NUREMBERG-DOOS, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO J. l i. SPEAR &SONS, OF NUREMBERG-DOOS, GERMANY, A FIRM.

PAPER DOLL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARL SPEAR, a member of the firm of J. W. SIEAR &Sons, and a resident of N 'uremberg-Doos, Germany, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Paper Dolls, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to paper dolls.

A notable object thereof is to provide a simple, cheap and practicalpaper doll which is so constructed that the head may be read ilyattached to or detached from the body or be made to assume a pluralityof diiferent positions in relation to said body.

Other objects will be in part obvious and in part pointed outhereinafter.

This invention accordingly consists of the features of construction andarrangement of parts which will be exemplified in the constructionhereinafter set forth and the scope of the application of which will beindicated in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings wherem is shown a preferred embodiment ofthe in vention: Figure 1 isa pictorial front view of a paper doll madein accordance therewith. Fig. 2 is a rear View of the head. Fig. 3 1S asectional detail view showing how the parts are detachably heldtogether.

Similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout thedrawings and speci fication.

In order that a better understanding of the invention may be had, it mayhere be noted that it is often desirable to manufacture and put up forsale, as a complete outfit, a single doll body and a plurality ofdetachable heads, representing diiferent types of face and differentfacial expression and any one of these heads may be fitted to the bodyand be made to assume different positions relative thereto, inaccordance with the desire of the user.

Now referring to the drawings for a description of the preferredembodiment of this invention, 1 denotes the body of the doll or figurewhich is cut from paper, cardboard or similar material and is providedat 2 with an integral upwardly extending neck portion. Although, asstated above, a plurality or set of heads is ordinarily provided witheach body, it is here deemed suflioient be seen that the head 2 isprovided adjacent the lower portion ther :of with a member 4,

which may be a strip or piece of paper or cardboard secured at i sedges, except along the bottom thereof, tr the rear surface of' the headso as to consti tute with said head a downwardly opening ocket 5. Thepocket strip or member may be secured to the head by means of paste orglue or in any other manner that preference dictates. The pocket 5 isdesigned and adap ;ed to receive therein the aforesaid neck por ion ofthe body, the former tapering or ha ing a curved boundary line, as shownat i, and the latter terminating in a similarly tapered or curved edge,as shown at 7, W1 .ereby after the head has been properly plar ed on thebody, the inclination thereof wit], respect to the body may be modifiedat wll to produce many different and varied e: fects.

It will accordingly be seen that this invention is one well adaptad toattain the ob j ects hereinbefore menti Jned in a thoroughly practicalmanner and i; is to be also noted that simplicity and chaapness ofstructure are combined with facility of operation and a neat appearance.

As many changes cc uld be made in the above construction an d manyseemingly widely different adaptations of this invention could be madewitI [out departing from the scope thereof, it is i1 tended that allmatter contained in the above description or shown in the accompan vingdrawings shall be considered as illustrative and not in a limitingsense.

Having thus describer my invention, what I claim as new and des: re tosecure by Letters Patent is 1. In an article of the character described,in combination, a heal provided with a pocket and a body having a neckextension adapted to lie within said pocket, said neck extensionterminating ii. a curved edge and the boundary line of sa d pocket beingcorrespondingly shaped to Jermit of manipulation of said head upon saidneck whereby the inclination thereof 1 elative to said body may bevaried at will.

2.' In an article of the character described, in combination, a bodyportion; a head portion; a pocket formed by pasting a strip uponPatented Nov. 14, 1911.

the back of one of said portions, the walls 015 be supported upon saidbody portion by the 10 said pocket along one edge thereof being contactof the edge of said extension with free from attachment with each other;an the interior boundary of said pocket.

extension formed upon the other of said In testimony whereof I aflix mysignature, portions and adapted to enter between said in the presence oftwo Witnesses. unattached Walls of said pocket; the said CARL SPEAR.extension and the said pocket being so Witnesses:

formed that upon the one being inserted RALPH W. Dox,

Within the other, the said head portion Will ELISABETH HELLMUTH.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents, each, byaddressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

